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Goodbye Oxford Tavern

Using my pictures and their words, Goodbye Oxford Tavern tells the story of the last 48 hours of an iconic topless bar and the people inside.

“When you boil it down to its essence, Lyndal Irons’ Goodbye Oxford Tavern is a tough, clear-eyed, and loving portrait of a doomed community.

What could have easily been a grimy and salacious – and all too common – treatment of the sub-culture of strip clubs becomes in Irons’ hands a touching archive of a place (and one more evicted tribe), an archive in which the voices and stories of the people in the pictures are given the space and weight necessary to kick open doors at the precise moment when they are closing forever.

It’s very, very difficult to do this sort of work with class and respect and a real sense of humanity, but Goodbye Oxford Tavern makes it look effortless.”

Brad Zellar, Little Brown Mushroom

“I shed a tear when I received your book and read it – you captured the evening and history perfectly. Thank you so much for documenting such an important part of mine and a lot of other peoples’ lives. I will hold these memories close to my heart forever.”